Identifying the Business Value of Superior Environmental Performance: Current Deliberations from the Aspen Institute

Corporate Environmental Strategy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 100-109

  William Sugar, J ^a,b   Descano, Linda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0345916310     PISSN: 10667938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1066-7938(00)80021-4     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. A copy of the Aspen Institute's report, Uncovering Value: Integrating Environmental and Financial Performance, is accessible on the web at http://www.aspeninst.org or may be purchased in hard copy from the Institute's Publications Office, 410-820-5338 or publications@ aspen inst.org.
2. The WICEM II conference led to the development of the International Chamber of Commerce's Business Charter for Sustainable Development.
3. For additional information on the role of financial institutions in valuing environmental performance, please see Mathew Kiernan, "Building Shareholder Value: Translating Environmental Performance," CES, Autumn, 1998, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 50-59; or Linda Descano and Bradford G. Gentry, "Communicating Environmental Perfor-mance to the Capital Markets," CES, Spring, 1998, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 14-19.
4. For additional information on the role of financial institutions in valuing environmental performance, please see Mathew Kiernan, "Building Shareholder Value: Translating Environmental Performance," CES, Autumn, 1998, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 50-59; or Linda Descano and Bradford G. Gentry, "Communicating Environmental Perfor-mance to the Capital Markets," CES, Spring, 1998, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 14-19.
5. For information concerning the CERES Global Reporting Initiative please see Joan Bavaria, "Fiduciary Obligation and the Importance of an Environmental Accounting Standard," CES, Winter, 1999, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 46-54 or at http: //www.ceres.org. The goal of the Global Reporting Initiative is to bring together the numerous initiatives on corporate environmental reporting that have developed independently throughout the world and shape them into one set of coherent, consistent global standards.
6. The primer, Environment: Value to Business, was developed by a work group comprised of GEMI members and led by Harry Ott, Director, Global Environmental Assurance, The Coca-Cola Company, and supported by Howard Brown of RPM Thermotrec Systems. A copy of the primer can be ordered on GEMI's web site at www.gemi.org or from GEMI's publications department at (202) 296-7449.